From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 17:10:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB051065678 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfr@rabson.org) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (unknown [IPv6:2002:50b1:e8f2:1::143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E9C8FC17 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfr@rabson.org) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:909f:1:21b:63ff:feb8:5abc] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:909f:1:21b:63ff:feb8:5abc]) by itchy.rabson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154D13FAD for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:10:31 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <4389C4C1-0EEB-4841-8F02-DC44BBC223F4@rabson.org> From: Doug Rabson To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:10:30 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Subject: Xen stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:10:33 -0000 I will be working on improving Xen support in FreeBSD for the new few months. My main goal is to add support for native Xen drivers to an amd64 kernel which is running in Xen's HVM mode. These drivers will take over from the slow emulated devices and provide most of the performance benefits of a paravirtualised kernel. I'm initially going to be supporting FreeBSD 6.x but I will port it all forward to head and 7.x when it works properly. If anyone is interested in following this work, please feel free to contact me by email or just check out my working tree at http://svn.freebsd.org/user/dfr/xenhvm/6 .